Play is engagement in an activity that is enjoyable. Play can look very different for each individual as we all have different preferences and abilities. Play can be boisterous or contemplative, it can occur alone or with others, and it provides opportunity for exploration that allows children to grow and develop. ... Read More

As a Speech and Language Pathologist who works with young children, my goals often involve literacy or the precursors to literacy. Why? Because reading and writing are language based and children need to be exposed to not only letters and sounds... Read More

Cortical Visual Impairment is the most prevalent form of visual impairment among children from developed countries. CVI is unique among visual impairments because it is one of the few conditions that can actually improve with the right assessment and intervention. Because it is a brain-based neurological vision impairment... Read More

One of the scariest challenges mothers can face is not being able to feed their children. Having a child who is a picky eater has become one of the major concerns for parents. In a recent study, it was estimated that almost 60% of parents who participated were concerned about their children’s feeding 1. But is this really a new issue... Read More

The core feature of our humanity is sensory processing. When we understand the nature of our sensory processing needs, we get information for constructing routines and contexts in daily life... Read More

When you look up developmental milestones for your child, you might see charts and graphs with lines or circles that intersect, or long lists of specific skills children should be reaching each month. All of it can be overwhelming. As a mom of three young children, I understand how easy it is to worry about your child’s development... Read More

Walking the style-bright streets of Saint-Honoré fashion district in Paris, a lighted sign catches your eye.

You want to believe those words but, your rational self whispers, “The perfect pair of jeans is born from the thoughtfully attentive hands of a sage-like tailor. A quietly confident professional perseverating on the subtleties of fabric, stitching and the smallest details of fit.”
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Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is a neurologically based, childhood speech sound disorder. CAS affects the precision and consistency of the movements which produce speech in the absence of neuromuscular deficits. It is an extreme difficulty or inability to plan or program the spatiotemporal parameters of speech movements in sequence, affecting prosody and speech sound production. Basically, the brain knows what it wants to say, but cannot properly plan and sequence the required speech sound movements... Read More

Visual impairment generally refers to diminished sight, and it's easy to assume that vision problems begin with the eyes. However, the eyes are just the first part in a complex visual system that also includes many parts of the brain: the optic nerves, optic tracts and optic radiations, (nerves relaying visual information from the eyes to the brain,) and the visual cortex (the part of the brain that converts light viewed by the eyes into meaningful images.) This then allows us to use sight in everyday activities... Read More

While several facilities offer all therapies under one roof, it is rare that clinicians coordinate therapeutic strategies across disciplines to deliver integrated, goal-directed care. Traditionally, each respective therapy focuses on a narrow scope of impairments and addresses those within their discipline’s theory-based framework. This is often the basis of trademarked therapies. For a child with a complex presentation, the result is therapies delivered in silos, with little cross over, and ultimately... Read More